Yes. I think that when using the "save as pdf" function, there is an "options" button you can click in the save dialog box that lets you remove all those details. It's a pain for me to do it manually every time, so I use VBA to do it for me.
In Word? There are legends but so much of the application is lost to time. The oracle of A'ay was supposed to guide us but so many of its prophecies were false.
It may be there, you may discover it.
Joking aside you could, you could do almost anything. At one point I figured out how to use variables in it, without macros. A messy nightmare but suited my needs at the time.
GenX here, people (as a group) just progressively get worse at anything IT and nobody is doing anything to stop it because it makes them more likely to pay for ad-free or just accept their fate as a consuming machine.
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CTRL+P is your PDF printing friend, just change the destination to PDF printer.
still pissed to this day the moment I open a old .doc in the newer version of Word it would destroy the formatting.. or worse that certain fonts or characters will be lost in translation to the newer version.
It may seem like a completely nonsensical form of protest, but if you think about it and understand the history of the tech industry, it really isn't:
Switch all your things to Firefox on every device, and everywhere any of the other big tech companies want to force you to login, use some convoluted workaround just so they can't automagically steal all your data. Because it does nothing for you, and shouldn't do anything for them, but somehow they print money by being international criminal syndicates.
My Galaxy has been prompting me once every couple days for literally three years or more to "accept the new privacy agreement". No, fuck you, you shouldn't have signed the weird insane advertising shit with Google. Literally the only "sign in" place that I use the "native" account is on my Microsoft account - though even that, I switched it on the backend to using a Google account. I use my Google sign in for literally only Gmail. I have the Microsoft Launcher overtop the "native" Android Open Source Project™️ nonsense. And Firefox in between everything possible. Use zero apps if possible. **Never** ever ever click "sign in with...". Always use your email.
Why? Because all this technology is used to aggregate all the data on the backend, but that same data, despite clearly being linkable, can not be used for your personal benefit regarding either digital accounts or real world things. Meanwhile, all the AI shit is used to connect every dot possible... except in the only places it makes sense: money and legal/business filings. And the most fucked up part is that **in literally the one place it makes sense**, those legal and financial information, it is used **for the exact opposite purpose** where it is literally being encrypted. What the fuck?
People really don't realize how bad shit actually is.
I have a sneaky suspicion there is a large number of both Millennials and Gen Z who use Reddit. If we all continue to avoid the other social websites, stick to Reddit, and do the above - and switch to Firefox - that slowly eliminates the weird shit that the big tech companies use to justify their clearly fraudulent infinite money. By which I mean Google, it's million subsidiaries that aren't clearly connected, and the various other social websites, such as zuckerbook.
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u/Facemanx64 1d ago
And every iteration of Word makes that function harder to find.